Bartholomew Beef

Bartholomew Beef Bartholomew Beef is grass-raised, grain-finished Black Angus Beef with no added hormones. Born, raised and finished on our family-owned and operated ranch.

Darren and Patti Bartholomew raise, finish and direct market Black Angus butcher beefs. Raised on grass and finished on grain for a minimum of 150 days, our butcher beefs are well marbled, tender and delicious! No hormones are added, and no antibiotics are fed. Our beef is available by the piece or by the steak, as well as by the quarter and half-beef. Specialty cuts and products like prime rib ro

asts, whole fillets, flavored brats, shelf-stable summer sausage and snack sticks, and refrigerated items like all beef sweet bologna and smoked brisket are now available. Catch us at the Boone County (Columbia), Gladstone, North K.C. and Liberty Wednesday farmers markets. Our ground beef products are available in six different HyVee grocery stores (all three in Columbia, Liberty, NW 64th in KC, and Kirksville). We also provide beef to the Broadway Diner, as well as occasionally to the Broadway Brewery and Murry's.

Here’s the leading candidate for “Mother of the Year” award! She’ll be six years old this fall and she just raised twin ...
04/22/2026

Here’s the leading candidate for “Mother of the Year” award! She’ll be six years old this fall and she just raised twin heifers, all on her own! And those two heifers are among the larger group of calves just weaned!

My favorite part of raising cattle: turning cow-calf pairs out on new grass pasture! The ladies up at the Atlanta farm a...
10/23/2025

My favorite part of raising cattle: turning cow-calf pairs out on new grass pasture! The ladies up at the Atlanta farm are enjoying their new grass today!

Not usually out when the moon is out!
09/10/2025

Not usually out when the moon is out!

Fall calving season has begun! Only two weeks early…
08/13/2025

Fall calving season has begun! Only two weeks early…

Heifers on grass! If it keeps raining, they may become the hay balers this year!!!
07/29/2025

Heifers on grass! If it keeps raining, they may become the hay balers this year!!!

Just a nice looking pair, enjoying the spring grass!
04/28/2025

Just a nice looking pair, enjoying the spring grass!

Somebody really knows me!!!
12/25/2024

Somebody really knows me!!!

Pretty day up at Atlanta!
10/04/2024

Pretty day up at Atlanta!

Hope my business page isn’t about to be permanently shut down!!!
10/04/2024

Hope my business page isn’t about to be permanently shut down!!!

04/25/2023

Hanging out with the recently weaned calves this afternoon!

So Friday was a big day here at the cattle ranch. We weaned two groups of fall calves, which are in the top photo, eatin...
04/09/2023

So Friday was a big day here at the cattle ranch. We weaned two groups of fall calves, which are in the top photo, eating like they didn’t miss their mamas AT ALL! Even though they were separated only about two hours earlier!

I took the bottom photo this morning, which shows some of the mamas looking for their babies, including a bunch of heifers just separated from their first ever calf.

So weaning day went pretty smoothly—only had one rodeo, which ended up unsuccessful. This particular gate-shy heifer calf went through the fence at three, yes THREE! different spots, rather than go out the gate with the other calves and cows. After the third fence escape, I gave up. (She was headed for town, already past the top of the first hill.) First attempt: calf 1, Patti 0.

Fortunately Will had cleaned out the air filter on the Gator a couple weeks ago, which kept me in the game as I was trying to get in front of the calf in various places in the pasture. Ahem…like all over the pasture. At one point, it dawned on me that the Gator was running pretty darn good, and I might want to tone it down a little bit…after I cut her off this time!

Later on, somebody mentioned that they kept seeing one wheel airborne as I was bouncing the Gator across the pasture. And no one really wanted to ride with me driving the Gator after that…I just don’t understand why…

I have to say, I am grateful for the team of neighbors who helped me with this project yesterday! You guys are the best!

And I am grateful to God for giving me another chance to take care of our cattle! Hope is an amazing thing and God is blessing me with lots of hope these days! However long it is that I can still do this—raise cattle—doesn’t really matter. I am a cattle rancher today, and I will also be one tomorrow, God willing.

What a change this is from a year ago, when I had resigned myself to the fact that metastatic breast cancer had taken me out of the hands-on cattle business. I thought I would never be out, chasing calves with the Gator or sorting calves from their mamas or feeding hay all winter long…but all of these things and many more have happened these past five months.

I try to tell my doctors how good I feel these days, by telling them that I am taking care of our cattle again. Without pain medication, which is amazingly better than the last couple of years I was trying to take care of the cattle. (Advil was my almost daily friend back then, before I knew my back pain was from metastasized breast cancer.)

And let me be clear—I have had A LOT of help since taking over the daily, hands-on cattle operation in mid-November. This has definitely not been a one-person show. Neighbors have covered for me during my scan and infusion trips to St. Louis, as well as the days afterwards, when the chemo was knocking me down and keeping me home-bound.

Now, as I am looking forward to the upcoming start of Cycle 10 on Enhertu, I have a better idea about how to deal with the chemo side effects and minimize those down days after infusion. Which lets me keep on doing what I can to take care of the cattle, because they are taking care of me.





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